The best way to describe the first teaser trailer and poster for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is, well, chillaxed. In the poster, the main cast is front and center, chilling up against some wall like they own the joint. It looks like the cover of an album some rock band would put out in the '70s -- all cool, calm and black and white; it's almost as if this crew is a little bored of being badasses. Case in point: the amusing use of the word "obviously" below the...

Nothing comes between a man and his dog -- until it does, and then all hell breaks loose in In a Valley of Violence, a Western reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino and old spaghetti Westerns with a mean sense of humor and twisted performances from Ethan Hawke, John Travolta and Taissa Farmiga. In the movie, Hawke plays a stranger who comes to a rundown town ruled by a crooked sheriff (Travolta), whose son (James Ransone) has a problem with the new arrivals. This sets off a chain of events you...

This week, Alicia Malone fills you in on two movies in theaters: Moonlight, an awards-worthy film that features three stages in a young black man's life and how he deals with difficulty at home, bullying at school, and navigating his own sexuality as he grows up; and the Korean indie from acclaimed director Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy), The Handmaiden, an erotic drama that has a young female swindler posing as a maid to defraud a wealthy woman of her fortune. Alicia also talks with Chan-Wook,...

If you're a hard-core Star Wars fan who already owns a copy of The Force Awakens and needs a major incentive to also pick up the upcoming 3D Collector's Edition Blu-ray, we've got some. First, the special release will feature a never-before-seen deleted scene from Maz Kanata's tavern, and it's a nice little tribute to part of the Cantina scene from the original movie.
Entertainment Weekly was able to share part of the scene, so we've got a...

Gore Verbinski is best known for making massive blockbuster films with increasingly elaborate action set pieces. That's just what happens when you make something like the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy that goes on to earn over a billion dollars and become a legit pop-culture phenomenon. But Verbinski is more than capable of keeping things small and intimate. In fact, he thrives when making the smaller stuff.
One of Verbinski's finest films is the 2002's The Ring, a...

If October has you in the mood to watch a new horror movie on the big screen, unfortunately this year your options are pretty limited. For whatever reason, major studios have stopped inundating pre-Halloween weekends with new horror movies. Fortunately, however, Ouija: Origin of Evil, the one wide horror release coming up, actually looks pretty good.
Directed by Mike Flanagan (Hush, Oculus), Ouija: Origin of Evil is, as the name implies, a prequel to the 2014 movie about teens who make...

Sovereign: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Snowden) will star in Sovereign, described as a sci-fi thriller. Gordon-Levitt will play a man who heads to a space station in search of his estranged wife after she and her fellow crew members disappear. Jack Thorne is writing a new draft of the screenplay and Marc Munden is set to direct; both are British TV veterans. [Deadline]
Starfall: Joe Johnston (Captain America: The First Avenger; The Wolfman, above with Emily Blunt) will direct...

Nobody, it seems, is getting the whole truth in The Whole Truth, a new legal drama starring Keanu Reeves as Richard Ramsay, the lead defense attorney in a case involving his widowed friend (Renee Zellweger) who is hoping Richard can keep her son out of jail for murdering his father. As the trial begins, Richard brings on the daughter of one of his colleagues, a newbie lawyer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) who ends up finding out the whole truth may be nothing like it first seems. As Ramsay is trying to get...

Four years after the events of Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise's army major is headed back to headquarters in D.C. to meet with Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders), who has been helping him solve cases. Upon arrival, he finds out Turner has been jailed on suspicion of espionage. As he tries to figure out what is going on, he uncovers an enormous government conspiracy that sends him on the run from the law and has army soldiers dying at the hands of one of their own. Now trying to clear his own name...

One of the more challenging times for both parents and children is when a new sibling enters the picture. They're extra needy and extra insane, and for the older brother or sister that means much of the attention is being diverted away from you.
It's those very familiar themes that will apparently be explored in The Boss Baby, a new animated film from DreamWorks Animation due out March 31, 2017. It features the voice of Alec Baldwin as a baby who wreaks havoc on a seven year...

On a quest to devour all of the latest superhero movie news all in one spot? We got you.
New Logan image teases Stephen Merchant's character
Logan (aka Wolverine 3) director James Mangold teased an image of Stephen Merchant's character in the film, rumored to be the mutant Caliban, who also appeared in X-Men: Apocalypse. In the latter film he was in charge of a bunker in Cairo where we first met Olivia Munn's Psylocke, who was Caliban's muscle.
Here's the...

Video game adaptations don't have the greatest track record, but Michael Fassbender is looking to do something about that with this December's Assassin's Creed, a big-screen adaptation of the popular game about a badass assassin whose wicked skills span centuries.
A new trailer for the film has arrived, detailing more of its heady story about a criminal whose death is faked in order for him to enter into a secret program that puts him in the mind of his ancestor, an assassin...

Let's return to the early 1990s for a fond, animated memory. Captain Planet and the Planeteeers launched on the TBS cable network from September 1990 to December 1992, followed by a sequel series that ran from September 1993 to May 1996.
By today's standards, the animation looks rudimentary. But despite the age of the shows, the focus on a positive environmental message remains relevant today. The series revolved around a diverse teenage team of so-called "planeteers,"...

Mulan: We've been hearing about Disney's plans for a new live-action Mulan and now comes word that a rival project at Sony has snagged a director. A previous report suggested Sony was searching for an Asian director; instead, Alex Graves, a TV veteran whose credits include Game of Thrones, will helm Sony's version, which has been scripted by Jason Keller (Mirror Mirror, Escape Plan). Both movies are based on the Chinese legend about a young female warrior, which was adapted by Disney...

Planning a family movie night this weekend? Check out Alice Through the Looking Glass, which brings back the classically curious cast of characters including Alice, the Mad Hatter and the Red Queen.
Not sure if the movie is right for your kids? Watch Mom’s Movie Minute and read this review.
There are plenty of fun crafts and recipes to add to the fun. Here are some super-cute ideas to get you started.
These tasty tea cakes will hit the...

I’m just going to own it: I am a jumper. Any loud noise or sudden movement in a film and I leap out of my seat. I watch scary movies with my hands covering up most of my face, my eyes squinting through the tiny cracks. It works for me. I (sometimes) think it is fun and exciting to be scared during a film. When I was a kid I eagerly saw many, many scary films, but often from the safety of a blanket fort or clutching the hand of a friend.
Experiencing a scary film is more than just the...

Ouija: Origin of Evil director Mike Flanagan, who was born in Salem, Massachusetts and is a die-hard horror fan, knows how to make a quality scary movie – he has the terrifying Oculus and Hush in his filmography. Because of this, Ouija: Origin of Evil is the rare follow-up that is a marked improvement over the first film, 2014’s dismal Ouija. In the sequel, a young girl falls under an evil entity’s influence when her mother adds a Ouija board to the family’s scam...

The success of recent films like American Sniper and Lone Survivor has paved the way for a new crop of war movies that isolate individual soldier stories, many of them true, and moviegoers are feasting on them. In November alone there are two, Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge and Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, while Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk awaits us this July.
But it's Billy Lynn -- based on Ben Fountain's acclaimed novel of the same name -- that takes...

We're on a bit of a war binge right now.
The success of recent films like American Sniper and Lone Survivor has paved the way for a new crop of war movies that isolate individual soldier stories, many of them true, and moviegoers are feasting on 'em. In November alone there are two, Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge and Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, while Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk awaits us this July.
But it's Billy Lynn -- based on Ben Fountain's...